OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Analysis is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring Distances in High Dimensional Spaces Why Average Group Vector Comparisons Exhibit Bias, And What to Do about it	228
Integrating Data Across Misaligned Spatial Units	142
Creating and Comparing Dictionary, Word Embedding, and Transformer-Based Models to Measure Discrete Emotions in German Political Text	54
Measuring Closeness in Proportional Representation Systems	53
Synthetically generated text for supervised text analysis	43
When Correlation Is Not Enough: Validating Populism Scores from Supervised Machine-Learning Models	42
Less Annotating, More Classifying: Addressing the Data Scarcity Issue of Supervised Machine Learning with Deep Transfer Learning and BERT-NLI	41
Parameterizing Spatial Weight Matrices in Spatial Econometric Models	39
Ends Against the Middle: Measuring Latent Traits when Opposites Respond the Same Way for Antithetical Reasons	33
Relatio: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives – ERRATUM	31
On Finetuning Large Language Models	29
Validating the Applicability of Bayesian Inference with Surname and Geocoding to Congressional Redistricting	28
A Nonparametric Bayesian Model for Detecting Differential Item Functioning: An Application to Political Representation in the US	28
Detecting and Correcting for Separation in Strategic Choice Models	27
PAN volume 30 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	26
Choosing Imputation Models	25
Using Multiple Pretreatment Periods to Improve Difference-in-Differences and Staggered Adoption Designs	19
Rejoinder: Concluding Remarks on Scholarly Communications	17
Party Positions from Wikipedia Classifications of Party Ideology	17
Selecting More Informative Training Sets with Fewer Observations	16
Contagion, Confounding, and Causality: Confronting the Three C’s of Observational Political Networks Research	16
How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies	15
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs	14
Categorizing Topics Versus Inferring Attitudes: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Open-ended Survey Responses	14
Quantifying Bias from Measurable and Unmeasurable Confounders Across Three Domains of Individual Determinants of Political Preferences	14

PAN volume 30 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	13
Proportionally Less Difficult?: Reevaluating Keele’s “Proportionally Difficult”	13
Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing	13
A Framework for the Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Analysis of Visual Frames	13
Exponential Random Graph Models for Dynamic Signed Networks: An Application to International Relations	12
The Probability of Casting a Pivotal Vote in an Instant Runoff Voting Election	12
Countering Non-Ignorable Nonresponse in Survey Models with Randomized Response Instruments and Doubly Robust Estimation	10
Identification of Preferences in Forced-Choice Conjoint Experiments: Reassessing the Quantity of Interest	9
Cross-Lingual Classification of Political Texts Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings	9
Generalized Kernel Regularized Least Squares	9
The Essential Role of Statistical Inference in Evaluating Electoral Systems: A Response to DeFord et al.	8
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging - CORRIGENDUM	8
Attention and Political Choice: A Foundation for Eye Tracking in Political Science	7
Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples	7
Balance as a Pre-Estimation Test for Time Series Analysis	7
Odd Profiles in Conjoint Experimental Designs: Effects on Survey-Taking Attention and Behavior	7
When Can We Trust Regression Discontinuity Design Estimates from Close Elections? Evidence from Experimental Benchmarks	7
PAN volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	7
Sentiment is Not Stance: Target-Aware Opinion Classification for Political Text Analysis	7
Introduction to the Special Issue: Innovations and Current Challenges in Experimental Methods	7
Ordered Beta Regression: A Parsimonious, Well-Fitting Model for Continuous Data with Lower and Upper Bounds	7
What Makes Party Systems Different? A Principal Component Analysis of 17 Advanced Democracies 1970–2013	7